Federer felt he had a bad year, losing to Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals at the Australian Open at the beginning of the year, then losing to Nadal in the French Open for the fifth time in the final, and losing to France's Tsonga in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, where he is best at Wimbledon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Federer has won at least one Grand Slam trophy every year since 2002, and this year, Federer's form is worrying, and if he loses the US Open, it will be his worst record since 2002.

Not far away, Federer's twin daughters were playing there, and Federer looked at the newspaper and sighed helplessly.

"Roger, what's wrong? Why sigh? His wife, Milka, asked.

"Look at this, the IAAF has just issued a new rule that an athlete can only compete in three Olympic athletics events. This is obviously aimed at Zhang Guan. Federer spoke.

Milka nodded: "I don't think the IAAF will allow Zhang Guan to dominate in track and field." I remember that in the last Olympic Games, Zhang Guan won 10 gold medals alone! But what does this have to do with us? ”

"Of course it does." Federer continued: "Zhang Guan can only choose three athletics events, so he can focus more on other events, such as tennis. If Zhang Guan participates in the Olympic tennis competition, it looks like I will not be able to win the Golden Slam in my life! ”

Federer was disappointed at this, and Milka came over to comfort her husband, and she said: "Zhang Guan hasn't played tennis for two or three years, maybe he is no longer in shape?" And his ATP points should be zero now, right? He still has to pass the Olympic wildcard qualifier to be on the Olympic stage, right? ”

"You're reminding me." Federer took his laptop and searched for information about Zhang Guan.

"Sure enough, Zhang Guan announced that he would participate in this year's China Open." Federer pointed to a piece of news.

"China Net? That sounds like an inconsequential event, right? Milka asked.

It doesn't matter, but the winner of the China Open has 500 ATP points, which is enough for Zhang Guan to go straight into the top 100 in the world. Moreover, there should be no big-name players participating in the China Open, and it will be easy for Zhang Guan to win the championship. Federer continued: "Zhang Guan may be able to recover some form at the China Open and then face the upcoming Shanghai Rolex Masters, which is an ATP 1000 event, Zhang Guan only needs to get a top-four place in the world, and he can firmly rank in the top 50 in the world in terms of points, and he will definitely get a ticket to Olympic tennis." It seems that the tennis racing of the Olympics will definitely be able to see Zhang Guan's figure. ”

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The women's singles event of the China Open is a WTA level 1 event, with a total prize fund of 1.34 million US dollars, while the total prize money of the entire China Open competition is only 2.34 million US dollars, after deducting the 1.34 million prize money of women's singles, the remaining men's singles, women's doubles and men's doubles have to share the prize money of 1 million US dollars, so the men's singles can not share much prize money.

The ATP 1000 Masters has a total prize fund of two or three million dollars, so the big players disdain to participate in the China Open. Those players who are a little more famous participate in the China Open, and they are all aiming for the 500 points. After all, the world's top players do not participate, and it is relatively easy to get these 500 points.

A total of 36 players participated in the men's singles at this year's China Open, and the top seed is France's Tsonga, who has just entered the world's top 10 with his excellent performance at Wimbledon, and is currently ranked 9th in the world, and he is also the only player in the world's top 10 in the China Open.

China, as the organizer, will have three host places, Zhang Guan naturally took one, and also took care of the grouping, the first opponent Russian Gabashvili, ranked around 100 in the world, participated in the four Grand Slams Most of the records stopped in the first round.

Such an opponent is obviously very conducive to Zhang Guan's ability to find the game form, and after a few rounds of familiarity, Zhang Guan defeated Gabashvili 6-4 and 6-1 to enter the second round.

Zhang's opponent in the second round was veteran Ljubicic. Ljubicic is actually only 32 years old this year, but he debuted relatively early, and he was bald early, and he looks older, so he feels like a veteran. However, Ljubicic's form is not as good as it was back then, and the historical Ljubicic also announced his retirement in April next year.

Ljubicic, who will retire next year, is obviously fame over strength, and Zhang Guan gradually found the feeling of a tennis game after a match, and finally defeated Ljubicic in two sets 6-3.

Zhang Guan's third opponent is the Russian player Yuzhny, which is an old opponent who has played against him, but with the growth of youth, Yuzhny has also come to the peak, when he played against Zhang Guan, Yuzhny was the top 15 players in the world, even in the four Grand Slams It is also seeded, and now Yuzhny is ranked more than 40 in the world, and he is not a seeded player in the Chinese Open.

The difference in strength also predestined the outcome of this game, and after Zhang Guan's victory over Youzni, he finally ushered in a relatively difficult opponent Cilic.

Prior to this, Zhang Guan met some "old, weak, sick and disabled" players, such as Ljubicic, although he was famous, he had already passed his peak, and this kind of person who was about to retire naturally did not have any strength. Cilic, from Croatia, is an up-and-coming player.

Cilic reached No. 9 in the world rankings last year and reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open, where he won the title in the 2014 US Open. Such a young and rising player can be regarded as the first whetstone that Zhang Guan has encountered.

Cilic's first Grand Slam tournament was in 2008, when Zhang Guan had faded out of tennis, so there was no record of a match between Cilic and Zhang Guan, and Cilic, who was not afraid of tigers, launched a strong attack on Zhang Guan at the beginning of the match.

Standing at 1.98m tall, Cilic is a typical Croatian strongman, and there is no doubt that he is the kind of player who has a powerful serve and a powerful forehand, which may not be suitable for the clay court of the French Open, but on hard courts, he is clearly at home.

However, Cilic picked the wrong opponent, the American cannon Roddick at the peak of the year, could not compare to Zhang Guan, and Cilic, who was slightly weaker, how could he be Zhang Guan's opponent.

After a confrontation battle, Cilic lost very simply, and even viewers who don't know much about tennis have seen that Cilic's failure is because his skills are not as good as others.

After beating Cilic, Zhang Guan advanced to the final of the China Open, where he faced Berdych.

Berdych is also a player who has risen relatively quickly in recent years, he reached the semi-finals of last year's French Open, and won the runner-up at Wimbledon, Berdych is currently ranked 11th in the world, and he is the only player in the China Open with Tsonga, and he also defeated Tsonga, advanced to the final of the China Open.

Berdych is a well-known "nerve knife", last year's Wimbledon, he killed Federer and Djokovic in succession, Federer and Djokovic were in good form at that time, but met Berdych, who played well, and still suffered defeat. This kind of "nerve knife" is invincible when it is in good condition, but when it is not in good condition, it often loses to some unknown people.

Berdych's form today is not good, nor bad, it can only be regarded as average, but after the game started, his form quickly decreased from "average" to "bad". Because almost no one in the entire tennis court cheered him on.

After all, the China Open is Zhang Guan's home field, especially when it comes to the final, the home audience must be one-sided in support of Zhang Guan.

For the "nerve knife" type of players, this strong away atmosphere is the most likely to affect the mood and state of play.

Nerve knives are often the more brave they are, the more brave they are, the more they fight, and once they are deflated, they are like balloons with holes, even if they blow up no matter how hard they try, it is impossible to blow up the balloon. There was no one to cheer Berdych on today, he couldn't get up brave, he couldn't fight, and he quickly surrendered.

The final was a best-of-five system, Zhang Guan lost three sets in straight sets, defeated Berdych smoothly, and won the championship of the China Open.

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Sweeping the net, Zhang Guan is back! -- The Sports Times gave a big headline. (To be continued.) )